Comments on: PM vs press gallery: anatomy of a tense encounterhttps://www.crikey.com.au/2012/11/27/pm-vs-press-gallery-anatomy-of-a-tense-encounter/
On politics, media, business, the environment and lifeFri, 09 Dec 2016 11:16:22 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.4By: pat dranehttps://www.crikey.com.au/2012/11/27/pm-vs-press-gallery-anatomy-of-a-tense-encounter/#comment-230428
Fri, 30 Nov 2012 08:26:46 +0000http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=334038#comment-230428With her experience climbing the greasy poles of the Labor movement, working in a firm specializing in AWU work and compensation work – she would have been exposed to all the Labor ‘culture’ and plenty of Union rorters.
]]>By: pat dranehttps://www.crikey.com.au/2012/11/27/pm-vs-press-gallery-anatomy-of-a-tense-encounter/#comment-230426
Fri, 30 Nov 2012 08:18:32 +0000http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=334038#comment-230426“You fellin the same trap as Abbott – she said it wasn’t a trade union, not that it wasn’t linked to a trade union BIG difference.”

Is this Julia’s hair trigger defence? A semantic play on words saves Julia you hope.

Ah – now lets look at the critical point – when did Gillard know – or more importantly should reasonably have known that the Association was a vehicle for a Wilson & Blewitt’s slush fund.

Gillard’s defence is that she was a naive victim of Wilson’s devious plan for the slush fund and she only found out about it after allegations were made in 1995.

Well what was this “Workplace Reorm Assoc at al” Gillard registered with the WA Authorities then?? She attested that it was not a Trade Union, and she had no idea that it was a vehicle for a slush fund in 1992. Well what on earth did she think it was??

Wilson and Blewitt were not just a couple of blow-ins who were referred to Gillard the disinterested professional lawyer.

Gillard was the bedmate of Wilson for 3-4 years and both close to Blewitt in this period.

Gillard was brought up on this Labor movement stuff – she was a Partner in a Labor Lawyering firm – she was not a kid – she was in her early thirties and had as she says now signed thousands of documents.

So the story that she had no idea that the Association was Wilson’s shush fund vehicle when she registered it in 1992 is pure fantasy – unbelievable and farcical as a defence.

With her experience climbing the greasy poles of the Labor movement

]]>By: Venise Alstergrenhttps://www.crikey.com.au/2012/11/27/pm-vs-press-gallery-anatomy-of-a-tense-encounter/#comment-230294
Fri, 30 Nov 2012 01:38:54 +0000http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=334038#comment-230294Breathless with anticipation, I switched on Question Time yesterday. Thinking to my self, “This is the day the Opposition will produce the evidence that PM Julia Gillard was a crim. This was what had had the Opposition in kiniptsions (sic) for the past few months. This is what the dishonourable leader of the Opposition had been waiting for. This is what the taxpayer has been paying for Tony Rabbott’s nasty vendetta.

Did he produce any evidence? None that I’m aware of. Instead he pronounced the PM to show ‘conduct unbecoming.’ Coming from him this was a rich brew of poison.

Looking slightly sheepish, Malcolm Turnbull didn’t seem overjoyed to be reminded of the Godwin Grech scenario which had helped to place the skids under him. What a bunch of embittered old men, and a couple of women, are, who inhabit the Coalition front/back benches.

Tony Rabbott might care to pass my regards to his little ankle-biter. As with him, she is all front and no depth. I wish them all an unhappy Christmas, and a dreadful New Year.

]]>By: Jimmyhttps://www.crikey.com.au/2012/11/27/pm-vs-press-gallery-anatomy-of-a-tense-encounter/#comment-230277
Thu, 29 Nov 2012 22:56:56 +0000http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=334038#comment-230277Pat Drane – “When queried by WA Authorities about whether the ‘AWU Workplace Association et al’ was a trade union organ, she wrote to attest that it had nothing to do with the AWU Trade Union.” You fellin the same trap as Abbott – she said it wasn’t a trade union, not that it wasn’t linked to a trade union BIG difference.
]]>By: Karenhttps://www.crikey.com.au/2012/11/27/pm-vs-press-gallery-anatomy-of-a-tense-encounter/#comment-230178
Thu, 29 Nov 2012 04:31:45 +0000http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=334038#comment-230178@ Jimmy #109 – exactly – “so what!”. Had the day off today and saw question time – well, Abbott was given the Warhol invitation to his 15 minutes of fame to “put up or shut up”. And he couldn’t. The wimp spectacularly failed. He couldn’t even provide bullets, let alone a smoking gun to accuse Gillard of misleading the WA Commission. In fact, he misrepresented the transcript of the Slater and Gordon exit interview – Gillard referred to it and specifically said she did NOT suggest the association was a trade union that required registering. She’s baying for blood, seeking an apology from Abbott for accusing her of committing a crime on the back of a false article in the SMH today about this issue that the SMH has now backed away from. Abbott won’t give it and has demanded a judicial inquiry. JG was so disgusted, she didn’t even bother answering the question, referring instead to him sitting in a bucket of mud and sleaze (aka known as sh$t).
]]>By: Karenhttps://www.crikey.com.au/2012/11/27/pm-vs-press-gallery-anatomy-of-a-tense-encounter/#comment-230122
Thu, 29 Nov 2012 03:00:55 +0000http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=334038#comment-230122@ Pat Drane – and referring back to my comment at #108, Julia, of course is no such thing – she is still a fresh faced, attractive 50+ year old, with a rubenesque bottom to boot. Greer , on the other hand, looks like Bishop, only worse. i
]]>By: Jimmyhttps://www.crikey.com.au/2012/11/27/pm-vs-press-gallery-anatomy-of-a-tense-encounter/#comment-230113
Thu, 29 Nov 2012 02:30:54 +0000http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=334038#comment-230113I think Gillard has summed up this latest piece of evidence perfectly – “So what”
]]>By: Karenhttps://www.crikey.com.au/2012/11/27/pm-vs-press-gallery-anatomy-of-a-tense-encounter/#comment-230111
Thu, 29 Nov 2012 02:26:25 +0000http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=334038#comment-230111@ Pat Drane – well, I nearly referred to Bishop as a shrivelled prune but thought better of it.
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Thu, 29 Nov 2012 01:40:16 +0000http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=334038#comment-230106Karen: At the moment, all we have are grossly defamatory comments made by Bishop who should have her bony ar5e put in a sling for it.

A good summary of the Gillard position Karen – hinging all on whether Gillard knew in 1993 that the Association was a ‘slush fund’, when she was setting it up for her bedmate.

She claimed that she only became aware of this in 1995 in the S&G exit interview, after allegations were made against Wilson & Blewitt.

She has repeated this claim in Parliament.

She told S&G partners in 1995 it was a slush fund for union election campaigning but the incorporation application form filled out by her described its purpose as ’development of changes to work to achieve safe workplaces’.

When queried by WA Authorities about whether the ‘AWU Workplace Association et al’ was a trade union organ, she wrote to attest that it had nothing to do with the AWU Trade Union.

Her office yesterday said: Ms Gillard ‘has no recollection of receiving or sending the claimed correspondence in this matter’.

Clearly, Gillard’s claim in 1995 that she did not know that the Association was Wilson & Blewitt’s slush fund in 1993 when she set it up – is false.

In that case – the likelihood is that she colluded with Wilson and Blewitt in 1993 to set up an entity labelled ‘AWU Workplace at al….’ to get ‘donations’ from big builders but was in fact a slush fund for Wilson & Blewitt’s re-election and subsequent fraudulent activities.

Clearly that is why S&G considered her behaviour a ‘resignation’ offence.

If she lies to Parliament – she is gone – that’s why she is stonewalling and blustering and her bedmates and faceless puppeteers are all rushing to the barricades.